People
Kenneth H. Beer will become Stone Energy Corp.’s new senior vice president and CFO effective Aug. 1. James H. Prince, executive vice president and CFO, Stone Energy Corp. retires at the end of July.
Julie Edwards, CFO and executive vice president - finance and administration, Frontier Oil Corp., has resigned to pursue another career opportunity. James Gibbs, chairman, president, and CEO, Frontier, will assume Edwards’ responsibilities until a successor is named.
The 2006 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) board members electedArnis Judzis, executive vice president of TerraTek, as chairman. His appointment was announced at OTC.05 at Reliant Center at Reliant Park in Houston. The OTC board includes 13 representatives, 11 from OTC’s sponsoring organizations and two from OTC’s endorsing organizations. Members of the OTC board serve for up to two four-year terms by their respective society or organization.
Worley
TDW Offshore Services has promotedLarry Worley to director. From Houston, he will guide the company’s global offshore business and direct facilities and personnel in Houston, Texas; Dublin, Ireland; and Aberdeen, Scotland. Worley comes to TDW after 14 years with Schlumberger Oilfield Services.
James R. Larson, CFO and senior vice president, Finance, will retire from Anadarko at the end of this year. Anadarko Canada Corp. has promoted Michael O. Bridges, president and general manager - Canada to vice president - Canada. He will continue to serve as president of ACC.
Stockholders electedSpencer Abraham, former US Secretary of Energy, to Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s board of directors. Abraham joins 10 other independent, outside directors, and Ray R. Irani, chairman, president, and CEO, who were reelected to the board.
Mackay
READ Well Services has appointedDonald Mackay to base operations manager, located in Bergen, Norway. Mackay is responsible for health, safety, quality, and environmental management.
BPZ Energy Inc. appointedFrederic Briens as COO, Randall D. Keys as CFO, and Edward G. Caminos to corporate controller. In a planned transition, Manolo Zuniga, president of BPZ, has assumed the additional duties as CEO. The former CEO, Tom Kelly will continue in an active role on the board of directors.
Shareholders electedWilliam W. George to the ExxonMobil board of directors. George is professor of management practice, Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the board and CEO of Medtronic Inc.
Construction Specialists Ltd. added new Aberdeen staff.Andrew Patience joined as client projects delivery manager and will manage a 20-person team of subsea project managers and engineers, Mark Gillespie and Michael Rosich join as subsea project managers, and Graham Matthews joins as engineering manager.
Companies
Tenaris SA has acquired a 97% sharehold in Donasid SA, a Romanian steel producer, for €37 million. Tenaris is assuming €16.8 million in long-term debt held by Donasid with AVAS, the Romanian state privatization agency, and will spend €25 million to adapt the steel shop for round steel bar production and other improvements.
CRC-Evans Pipeline International Inc. signed a contract with ZAO Izhorsky Trubny Zavod, based in Kolpino, St. Petersburg, Russia, for the design, manufacture, delivery, and installation of a pipe cleaning and coating facility for the application of three-layer polyethylene coatings.
Fugro GEOS Inc. has announced its support of marine science, engineering, and underwater technology education by offering a $5,000 scholarship to an undergraduate student pursuing a course of study in a related field. In conjunction with Fugro GEOS, the Society for Underwater Technology’s Houston Chapter assesses applications. SUT Houston awarded three $5,000 scholarships to qualifying undergraduates last year. The society will award $10,000 in graduate scholarships this year.
Scan Tech UK, part of James Fisher & Sons plc, has signed a strategic agreement with Perry Slingsby Systems, a provider of remote intervention technologies and equipment systems. Scan Tech will be the exclusive rental supplier for Perry’s ROV tooling in the North Sea.
ABZ Grouphas acquiredLabtech Services Ltd. Former owner and manager of Labtech, Jim Manson, will remain with the company and be involved in ABZ’s development.
Microsoft Corp. and Schlumberger formed a strategic initiative to align analysis and enterprise software and to speed delivery of software solutions on the Windows and Microsoft .NET platforms. Schlumberger will assist Microsoft in bringing petrotechnical workflows and integrated asset modeling to exploration and production. Microsoft will work with Schlumberger to develop applications on .NET.
Schlumberger has acquired Diamould Ltd., an oil and gas industry firm specializing in electrical, hydraulic, and fiber-optic connector solutions, based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK.
Richard Selwa (left) and Mike Crabtree celebrate OilFlow Solutions Ltd.
ViencoandAGT Energy have formed a jointly owned company, OilFlow Solutions Ltd. OilFlow will market Proflux 200 and Proflux 300, which optimize the flow of viscous oils.
Prosafe Rigs Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Prosafe ASA, was awarded a 30-day contract extension for the Safe Caledonia from Aug. 5, 2005. Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Co. extended the contract, the second of four possible 30-day extensions, for the use of the vessel for dynamic positioning hook-up/construction support of the Bonga FPSO in Nigeria.
Fugro McClelland Marine Geosciences has won the Jones F. Devlin Award for safety from the Chamber of Shipping of America. FMMG earned the award for the safety aboard its geotechnical drill ship, Fugro Explorer. The vessel has had no lost-time incidents in more than three years.
BUE Viking of Aberdeen, UK, is changing its name to Viking Offshore Services Ltd. The company is rebranding its 37 vessels by adding the prefix, “Viking,” to their names and repainting the vessels yellow and black. Viking Supply Ships acquired BUE Marine’s 50% share of BUE Viking last year.
JDR Cable Systems in partnership with Subsea 7 has developed what it says is the first hydraulic flying lead that offers the flexibility of a thermoplastic umbilical with the leak-tight reliability of a steel tube umbilical.
Statoil AS awarded a NKr143 million contract to Halliburton AS for precommissioning of the Langeled pipeline. Engineering design work will begin this year with the precommissioning operation phase occurring in 2006 and 2007. The project consists of pigging, hydrostatic testing, dewatering, and drying the pipeline with work locations onshore in the UK and Norway, and offshore on the Sleipner platform and vessels. The 1,200-km, 42- to 44-in. pipeline will provide gas to Ormen Lange from Western Norway to the UK.
PennWell Corp. has hiredJohn Royall as vice president and group publisher of Offshore magazine. Royall is a seasoned publishing executive with 20+ years’ experience. Prior to joining PennWell, he served as group publisher for Reed Business Information in its Newton, Massachusetts, office, and worked for Penton Media.
PennWell also has appointedEldon Ball as Director of Petroleum Conferences. Ball also serves as editor-in-chief of Offshore magazine and previously served as managing editor of Offshore, editor of Ocean Oil Weekly Report, and editor and associate publisher of Petroleum Management magazine.
